Cannabis Laws in Washington, D.C.
A guide to D.C.'s unusual legal landscape, where possession and gifting are legal but sales remain banned unde...
Cannabis Laws in Wisconsin
Wisconsin remains one of the most restrictive U.S. states on cannabis, with no medical program and criminal pe...
Cannabis Laws in Wyoming
Wyoming remains one of the strictest cannabis states in the U.S., with no legal recreational or broad medical...
Cannabis Laws in the Netherlands
The Dutch tolerate cannabis sales in coffeeshops but never legalized them — a decades-old compromise now being...
Cannabis Laws in the United Kingdom
Cannabis is a Class B controlled drug in the UK, with limited medical access and no legal recreational market...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Australia
How Australian states, territories and local councils retain or restrict authority over cannabis policy under...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Colorado
How Colorado municipalities and counties can ban, limit, or license cannabis businesses under state law.
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Florida
How Florida cities and counties can limit medical marijuana dispensaries within their borders, and why most ju...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Hawaii
How Hawaii's counties can and cannot restrict cannabis businesses under state law, current as of 2024.
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Illinois
How Illinois municipalities and counties can restrict, tax, or ban adult-use cannabis businesses under the sta...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Massachusetts
How Massachusetts cities and towns can ban or limit cannabis businesses under state law, and what changed afte...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in New Mexico
How New Mexico's Cannabis Regulation Act limits local government control over retail cannabis businesses and w...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in New York
How New York cities, towns, and villages were allowed to block retail dispensaries and on-site consumption sit...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Rhode Island
How Rhode Island cities and towns could refuse recreational cannabis retailers under the 2022 Cannabis Act, an...
Cannabis Local Opt-Out Provisions in Washington
How Washington cities and counties can ban or restrict state-licensed cannabis businesses within their borders...
Cannabis Medical Program Qualifying Conditions in Jamaica
How Jamaica's Cannabis Licensing Authority framework handles medical cannabis access, who qualifies, and what...
Cannabis Medical Program Qualifying Conditions in South Africa
South Africa has no government-issued patient list — access runs through SAHPRA Section 21 authorisations deci...
Cannabis Packaging Requirements in Delaware
An overview of Delaware's adult-use and medical cannabis packaging rules, including child-resistance, labeling...
Cannabis Packaging Requirements in Malta
What Malta's cannabis harm reduction law and ARUC rules require for packaging of cannabis distributed through...
Cannabis Packaging Requirements in Rhode Island
A plain-English guide to Rhode Island's child-resistant, labeling, and marketing rules for licensed cannabis p...
Cannabis Packaging Requirements in Spain
Spain has no legal recreational cannabis market, so 'packaging rules' apply only to hemp, CBD cosmetics, and l...
Cannabis Pardons (State and Federal)
How executive pardons for marijuana offenses work in the United States, what they actually do, and what they d...
Cannabis Personal Cultivation Limits in Alaska
Alaska allows adults 21+ to grow up to six plants at home, but only three flowering — with a household cap and...
Cannabis Personal Cultivation Limits in New Jersey
New Jersey prohibits all home cultivation of cannabis, even for adults and registered medical patients, as of...